Cinchonium Sulphuricum cinch.
Mind
Chooses wrong expressions, or misplaces them.
Slow train of ideas.
Ideas and projects crowd on his mind, especially in evening.
Fixed idea that he is unhappy, persecuted by enemies.
Delirium after depletion; on closing eyes, sees figures of persons.
Compelled to jump out of bed; wants to destroy himself, but lacks courage.
Inclined to reproach and vex others.
Dislike to all mental or physical exertion.
Low-spirited, gloomy, has no desire to live.
Dread of dogs and other animals at night.
Inconsolable anxiety, even to suicide.
Indifference, apathy.
Ill-humor.
Stubborn, disobedient, longing for dainties; face pale, or at times red; restless all night; children.
Intolerance of sensual impressions.
Nervous irritation.
Worse exerting the mind.
Sensorium
Dulness of head, giddiness, as from sitting up at night and sleeplessness.
Heaviness of the head, fainting, loss of sight, ringing in ears; cold surface. θ After hemorrhage.
Vertigo: after loss of animal fluids; from anæmia; head feels weak, can hardly hold it erect; with the chill; on raising the head; with nervous erethism, hysterical excitability; with fainting.
Dulness of the head, as from coryza or intoxication.
Heaviness of the head, increasing vertigo.
Inner Head
Intense throbbing headache; carotids throb.
θ After loss of blood.
Stitches from temple to temple.
Sensation as if head would burst, with sleeplessness; worse from motion or any jar; better in the room and when opening the eyes.
Whole head feels bruised; worse from exerting the mind.
Headache from suppressed coryza; worse in open air, or exerting mind.
Brain feels bruised; worse on moving, even opening his eyes; scalp sensitive; worse at night.
Headache in occiput after sexual excesses or onanism.
Headache, worse from draught of air, in the open air, slightest touch; better from hard pressure.
Headache from occiput over whole head from morning until afternoon; worse lying, must stand or walk; drives to madness.
Tearing, drawing, oppressive pains, as from load on head.
Outer Head
Burning in forehead, with hot sweat on it.
Scalp sensitive to touch, roots of hair hurt when hair is moved.
Scalp feels as if the hair was grasped roughly by the hand.
Profuse sweat on head, especially when walking in open air.
Eyes
Nocturnal blindness.
Worse from light; better in the dark.
Scintillations, or black motes before eyes.
Amblyopia in drunkards; after masturbation, tendency of blood to head.
Pressure in eyes, as from drowsiness.
Letters pale, surrounded by white borders.
Dilated, not very sensitive pupils.
Pressure, as from sand in eyes; photophobia; eyes hot, red; or, dim and faint, as if filled with smoke.
Ears
Fine ringing in ears, debility.
Hardness of hearing; humming in ears.
Stitches in the ears.
Tearing pains in ears, worse from the least touch; ears red; stitches, with ringing.
Nose
Smell too acute.
Dry coryza, toothache, lachrymation; much sneezing.
Nosebleed, anæmia; ringing in ears; face pale, fainting.
Habitual nosebleed, especially morning, on rising.
Face
Face hot, when entering room from open air.
Veins of face distended.
Face: red, during fever; hollow, pale, or livid with atrophy; pale, blue around the eyes; yellow; earthy; grey; yellow or black; hippocratic.
Neuralgia, periodical attacks; pains excessive, skin sensitive to least touch; part feels weak; face alternately red and pale; pains from left to right; mostly in infraorbital and maxillary branches.
Lower Face
Lips: burning; swollen; dry, hard, cracked, blackish; blackish and shriveled.
Submaxillary glands swollen, painful during swallowing.
Teeth
Toothache, veins in forehead and hands distended; throbbing pain.
Toothache while infant sucks the breast.
Toothache worse from least contact, moving body, tea, open air, or current of air; better from pressing teeth together.
Toothache during sweat.
Swelling of gums; mouth dry.
Tongue, etc
Taste: too acute; putrid, morning; bitter in back part of throat; flat, watery.
Food tastes bitter or too salty.
Tongue white; or yellow; thick, dirty coating.
Tongue white, mornings; child restless all night; no appetite for breakfast.
Tongue black, or raw, as if burned.
Burning as from pepper on tip of tongue, followed by ptyalism.
Mouth
Salivation day and night, years after mercury, great weakness, especially of stomach.
Throat
Throat feels rough, scrapped, producing a sore sensation on swallowing.
Difficult deglutition, as from contraction of the œsophagus.
Gangrene of throat.
Desires and Aversions
Longs for spirits; sweets; sour, cooling things; roasted coffee.
Children dainty, desire various things without knowing what.
Wants highly seasoned food.
Canine hunger; worse at night.
Voracious appetite. θ Atrophy.
Violent thirst for cold water; drinks little and often.
Loathing of food as if he had overeaten.
Averse to bread; to beer; to butter; to meat; to fat things; to warm food.
Loss of appetite in foggy weather.
Loss of appetite, nausea, desire to vomit.
Aversion to all food, even when thinking of it; dread of labour; drowsy by day; yellow eyes.
Eating and Drinking
Worse drinking wine and other liquors.
Worse after breakfast.
Sour eructations after milk.
Gastric symptoms from: eating fish; excessive use of tea; sour wine; new beer; impure water; fruit.
Warm drinks impede digestion.
Worse from smoking.
Nausea and Vomiting
Heart-burn, after milk.
Belching, sour rising.
Eructations tasting of the food; or are bitter.
Vomit: sour; blackish; bloody; worse at night.
Frequent vomiting.
Stomach
Pulsations in pit of stomach.
Heavy pressure in stomach after small quantity of food.
Cold feeling in stomach; constant satiated feeling, yet can eat, but feels worse afterwards.
Fulness in stomach and bowels; flatulence; belching does not relieve.
Slow digestion, food remains long in stomach; especially if eaten too late in the day.
Hæmatemesis; great loss of blood, weak, pale, cold hands and feet; stomach very sensitive to touch.
Gastralgia after depletion; acidity; bloating after food or drink; satiety; relieved by motion.
Stomach feels sore, as if ulcerated, cannot bear slight touch.
Hypochondria
Pain in hepatic region, as from subcutaneous ulceration; worse from touch.
Swollen, hard liver.
Colic form gall-stones.
Gastro-duodenal catarrh after loss of fluids or severe illness.
Enlarged spleen.
Aching, stitching pains in spleen when walking slowly; pains extend in direction of long axis of spleen.
Abdomen
Pressing-aching below navel.
Flatulence from excessive tea drinking.
Colic better bending double.
Colic worse at night and after eating.
Colic at a certain hour each afternoon; "3 months colic".
Abdomen distended, wants to belch.
Abdomen as if packed full, not relieved by belching.
Tympanitic abdomen, pressure as from a hard body; or, spasmodic, constricting pains from incarcerated flatulence; worse at night or after depletion; also in typhus, worse mornings.
Strangulated hernia; gut (the intestine) black; after operation.
Stool, etc
Stools: loose, brownish, painless, with feeling of debility; frothy, painless, diarrhœic, with fermentation in bowels; after sour beer; painless, black; thin, large, with passage of wind, mornings; offensive undigested, or white, papescent, at night; yellow, watery, involuntary; cadaverous-smelling, chocolate-colored, worse at night.
Diarrhœa comes on gradually, more and more watery, pale, pinkish, with rapid emaciation.
Constipation: large accumulation; stool difficult, even if soft; after long purging.
Mucous discharge from the rectum.
Bleeding piles, burning and itching.
Tingling in the anus.
Urine
Frequent micturition.
Burning at orifice of urethra, especially painful from rubbing of clothes.
Urine: turbid, dark, scanty; white, turbid, with white sediment; pale, becoming cloudy or depositing a dingy, yellow, loose sediment.
Scanty, greenish-yellow, brick-dust sediment.
Pinkish sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual desire; lascivious fancies.
Impotence, with lascivious fancies.
Nocturnal emissions, frequent and debilitating.
Consequences of excessive or long-continued seminal losses; onanism.
Painful swelling of spermatic cord and testicle, especially the epididymis; tearing in the left testicle and left side of prepuce; cramp-like, contractive pain in the testicles, evenings. θ After gonorrhœa.
Contractive pain in urethra.
Female Sexual Organs
Ovaritis from sexual excess or hemorrhage, parts very sensitive to slight touch.
Dropsy: of ovaries; of uterus.
Congestion to the uterus, fulness, pressing and heaviness, worse when walking.
Menses: too early, profuse, black clots, with spasm in chest and abdomen; painful.
Metrorrhagia, blood dark, fainting convulsions.
Discharge of bloody serum, alternating with pus.
Leucorrhœa: instead of menses, with itching; with spasmodic uterine contractions, painful bearing down to vulva and anus; menses increased.
Painful induration in the vagina.
Pregnancy
Nymphomania of lying-in-women.
Abdomen; abdomen distended, belching does not relieve.
Labor-pains cease from hemorrhage; cannot have the hands touched.
Uterine hemorrhages, ringing in ears, fainting, cold, loss of sight; discharge of dark clots; uterine spasms; twitches, jerks; wants to be fanned.
Lochia lasts too long; drawing about ovaries; or discharge fetid or cheesy, purulent.
Asphyxia of the newborn; after great loss of blood by the mother.
Larynx
Hoarse, voice rough, deep from adhering mucus.
Sore sensation in larynx and trachea.
Influenza, with debility, loss of appetite, heat without thirst.
Breathing
Asthma, looks as if dying; worse autumn, wet weather, or after depletion.
Cannot breathe with head low.
Wheezing, whistling inspiration, crowing, rattling, oppressed and painful.
Oppression of the chest; also evenings, lying down.
Nightly suffocative fits; spasmodic cough.
Suffocative catarrh, and paralysis of lungs of old people.
Rattling in chest; loud sounds through the nose.
Inspiration slow, difficult; expiration quick, blowing, short.
Œdema glottidis.
Oppression of chest, as from fulness of stomach; also continued talking.
Breath cold.
Cough
With pain in larynx and sternum; with pain throughout whole cavity of chest.
Cough causing cutting in left lower abdomen; expectoration difficult, black.
Cough with granular sputum during day or evening, none night or morning.
Dry, spasmodic or suffocative night cough, as from vapor of sulphur, with bilious vomit.
Cough first hollow, dry and painful, later bloody expectoration.
Sputa slimy, whitish.
Coughs worse: lying with head low, or on left side; moving; deep breath, talking, laughing; eating, drinking; evening or after 12 P.M.; lightly touching larynx; least draught; loss of fluids; after being awakened.
Lungs
Loud, coarse rales, great debility, anæmia; œdema of legs.
Pneumonia after hemorrhages, bleeding or with bilious symptoms; or incipient gangrene.
Pressure in chest as from violent rush of blood, violent palpitation; bloody sputum; sudden prostration.
Stitches in right chest up to axilla, prevents bending forward and breathing; stitches in left chest; stitches under sternum worse during deep breathing and sudden movements.
Phthisis of drunkards, suppuration of lungs.
Cannot bear percussion or even auscultation, chest so sensitive.
Hæmoptysis: with subsequent suppuration of lungs; stitches in chest worse from slight touch.
Heart and Pulse
Palpitation: with rush of blood to face, heat and redness of face, with cold hands; after loss of fluids.
Pulse: frequent, small, hard; more quiet after meals; feeble, rapid; unequal, intermitting.
Neck and Back
Pressure as from a stone between scapulæ.
Pain in small of back at night, lying on it.
Insupportable pain in small of back, like a cramp, worse from least movement.
Laming, drawing, tearing in back and thighs.
Upper Limbs
Aching in shoulder-blades and limbs; worse from least pressure; restless, wants to change position.
Spasmodic stretching of the arms, with clenched fingers.
Hands tremble (when writing).
Veins of hands distended.
Swelling of back of left hand.
One hand icy-cold, the other warm.
Nails blue.
Lower limbs
Hip disease, with profuse suppuration, sweat, diarrhœa.
Pain in the right knee, up to thigh, or down towards the legs; pains worse from contact than from motion.
Legs feel as after a long walk.
Uneasiness in legs, must move them or draw them up.
Hot swelling of right knee, painful to slight touch.
Knees weak, especially when walking.
Rheumatic pains in metatarsal bones, and phalanges, worse from motion and contact.
Swelling of the feet; hot, arthritic.
Limbs in General
Darting-tearing, worse from contact, especially in hands and feet.
Pains in all the limbs, as if clothing were too tight, after a walk in the open air.
Pains in limbs increasing gradually, worse from slight touch.
Parts about the joints are swollen and very sensitive to least touch; worse at night, parts feel weak.
Heaviness in limbs, especially the thighs.
Limbs pain, especially joints, as if bruised, worse in rest, better moving.
Position, etc
Rest: 34. Sudden motion: 28. Motion: 3, 10, 17, 27, 31, 33, 34, 36. Walking: 4, 18, 23, 33, 34. Must stand or walk: 3. Wants to change position: 32. Lying: 3, 26; on back: 31; on left side: 27; with head low: 26, 27. Parts lain on: 36, 40. Raising the head: 2. Bending double: 19.
Nerves
Great debility, trembling, averse to all exercise; nervous; sensitive to pain, to draughts of air; sleepless.
Complaints from loss of animal fluids.
Convulsions: rush of blood to head, throbbing carotids; from great loss of blood.
Epileptic spasms far apart; deathly pallor; relaxation of muscles.
Paralysis from loss of fluids; after arsenical poisoning; onanism.
Numbness of parts on which he lies.
Twitching of limbs.
Sleep
Irresistibly sleepy during day and after eating.
Constant sopor or unrefreshing sleep.
Sleepless, aching in head (until 12 P.M.), anxiety on waking, from frightful dreams.
Sleepless, from crowding of ideas, making plans.
During sleep: snoring, blowing expiration; moaning, whining.
Sleep too short, unrefreshing; awakens too early.
Worst sleep after 3 A.M.
On awaking: cannot collect one's senses vertigo; hunger; sweat; languor; unrefreshed; head hot; oppression of chest.
Time
Morning till afternoon: 3. Morning: 7, 11, 19, 20, 27, 40. Forenoon: 40. Afternoon: 19, 40. Evening: 1, 22, 26, 27, 40. Night: 1, 3, 5, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 31, 34, 37, 40. 3 A.M.: 37. Day: 27, 37. Day and night: 12.
Temperature and Weather
Room: 3. Entering room from open air: 8. Warm stove: 40. Draught: 3, 10, 27, 36. Open air: 3, 4, 10, 34. Foggy weather: 14. Wet weather: 26. Covering up: 40.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Chill preceded by palpitation, anxiety and hunger.
Chill over the whole body, increased by drinking, thirst before or after, but not during the chill.
Internal violent chill, with icy-cold hands and feet, and congestion of blood to the head.
Chill and heat alternating in the afternoon.
Fugitive chills in the back, tendency to sweat on covering up.
In the evening in bed, he cannot get warm.
Wants to be near the stove, but it increases the chill.
Chill most afternoon or evening; less forenoon.
General heat, with distended veins.
Heat of face, with cold body.
Long-lasting heat, which frequently sets in late after chill.
During the heat: thirstlessness or thirst for cold drink only; desire to uncover; aversion to food; or canine hunger; pains in the liver, chest, back, limbs.
Sweat: debilitating, night or morning; profuse; partial, cold, or profuse, with thirst; greasy; on the side on which one lies.
During the sweat, increased thirst.
Revulsion of sweat, and therefrom want of sweat.
Heat of the face, with cold body.
Sweat profuse, morning and night.
Sweat partial, cold; or, profuse, with thirst; sweats easily, especially at night in sleep.
Fever, with dry mouth, burning lips; red, face, delirium; chill when uncovered: pains in limbs.
Sweat on side lain on; sweat less after meals.
Suppressed sweat.
Hectic fever, frequent night-sweats, diarrhœa, pallor; skin dry, flaccid; sleepless; nervous; hunger; after exhausting disease, loss of fluids, etc.
Acute fevers, with profuse sweats.
Typhoid fevers: 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 20, 26, 36, 37.
Attacks
Worse every other day: congestions; chills; neuralgia.
Autumn: 26.
Worse during increase of moon.
Alternate weakness and feeling of great strength, especially in joints.
Pains in organs, alternate with wandering rheumatic pains.
Sides
Right: 28, 33. Left: 22, 27, 28, 32. Left to right: 8. Above downwards: 23, 33. Below upwards: 28, 33.
Sensations
Pain in every joint, bones, periosteum as if strained.
Pains with lameness or weakness of affected parts.
Single parts feel pithy, numb.
Tissues
Hemorrhages from mouth, nose or bowels; wants sour things.
Glands swollen, hot, painful.
Chlorosis, dropsy, poor digestion; after exhausting diseases or discharges.
Red inflammatory swellings.
Wounds become black, gangrenous.
Muscles lax.
Emaciation, especially of hands and feet; atrophy of children.
Humid gangrene; parts turn black.
Anasarca, ascites in the aged; also from liver and spleen disease; drunkards.
Caries with profuse sweat.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Touch: 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 17, 18, 23, 24, 27, 28, 33, 34, 46. Pressure: 3, 10, 32. Rubbing: 21. Jarring: 3.
Skin
Skin: dry, flaccid; yellow; of whole body sensitive, even palms of hands.
Ulcers ichorous, sensitive; ichor has a putrid smell.
Ulcer flat, shallow, copious discharge.
Small-pox, pustules black.
Stages and States
Swarthy persons.
Debilitated, "broken down", from exhausting discharges.
Old women after menopause; pleurisy, dropsy.
Relationship
Antidotes to Cinchon. are: Aran. diad., Arsen., Carb. veg., Eupat. perf., Ferrum, Ipec., Laches., Natr. mur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur, Veratr. Cinchon. is frequently indicated in ailments from Arsen., Calcar., Coffea, Helleb., Iodum, Mercur., Sulphur, Veratr.
Also in hemorrhages from abuse of Chamom.
Complementary to Ferrum.
Cinchon. increases the anxiety caused by Digit.
Inimical to Selen.
Cinchon. antidotes: Arsen., Ipec.
Chin. mur. is sometimes preferable for periodical severe pain in or above eye, with chills; iris involved; cornea ulcerated.
In intermittent fever of nervous or hysterical women, compare Tarent.